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The Dutch labour market of the last few decades has been characterised by a sharp increase of unemployment in the beginning of the eighties, reaching its highest level in 1983. After 1983 unemployment declined but at the moment it is still quite high. Although the development of unemployment was similar all over the country, there were regional differences. In the northern part of The Netherlands unemployment hardly decreased at all after 1983, while in the eastern and southern parts the decline was larger than in the western part. There are also substantial differences in the regional unemployment rate. In 1988 the unemployment rate in the region Groningen was 11% while in for example Utrecht it was only 5%; while the Dutch average was 6.7% (see Table 1 below).
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van Ours, J.C. (1992). Regional differences in the efficiency of the Dutch labour market. In: Verhaar, C.H.A., Jansma, LG., de Goede, M.P.M., van Ophem, J.A.C., de Vries, A. (eds) On the Mysteries of Unemployment. Studies in Operational Regional Science, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8080-9_13
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